Peru, Kansas Weather
Peru, Kansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Peru, Chautauqua County.
Full aviation weather for Peru is published on the Independence Municipal Airport (KIDP) page, 29 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 6 airfields within reach of Peru have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Peru: Bartlesville Municipal Airport (KBVO) 37 km · Coffeyville Municipal Airport (KCFV) 46 km · Pawhuska Municipal Airport (KH76) 54 km · Neodesha Municipal Airport (K2K7) 55 km · Nowata Municipal Airport (KH66) 59 km
Conditions reported at KIDP describe the airfield itself. Weather 29 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Peru specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Peru.
About Peru, Kansas
Peru, Kansas, unfolds across a landscape of broad, sweeping horizons, where the Kansas sky stretches in an endless blue dome, often painted with streaks of sunset that bleed into the deepening twilight. It lies 24.4 miles north-north-west of Bartlesville, OK (from Bartlesville, OK: bearing 345°T), and is situated 5.7 miles east-south-east of Sedan. The terrain here is a gentle, rolling prairie, softened by a century of cultivation, where fields of wheat and corn ripple in the breeze like a golden and green sea. Ancient Osage orange hedgerows, thick and gnarled, delineate property lines, their tangled branches offering a sanctuary for unseen birds and the occasional flash of a rabbit’s white tail. The air, especially in the quiet hours of dawn, carries the clean scent of turned earth and wild grasses, a fragrance that speaks of sustenance and the patient work of generations. The history of Peru is etched not in grand monuments, but in the enduring spirit of its people and the quiet hum of its agricultural roots. Established by settlers drawn to the fertile soil, Peru became a small but vital hub, its economy long tied to the bounty of the land. The grain elevator, a stoic sentinel against the vast prairie sky, still stands as a testament to this enduring connection, its silos a silent promise of harvest. Though the railroad that once brought vital commerce has long since faded, the character of Peru remains, a place where neighbourly bonds are as strong as the wind that sweeps across the plains, and where the rhythm of life is dictated by the turning of the seasons.
Live animated radar for Peru and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
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| Location | Peru, Chautauqua County, Kansas |
| Coordinates | 37.088671°N, 96.09471°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 67360 |
| Area Code | 785 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Peru, Kansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Peru, Kansas, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Peru includes coordinates 37.088671°N, 96.094710°W, situated in Chautauqua County. ZIP code 67360. Telephone area code: 785. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
